When is a road of National significance not a road of National significance?

When it’s a Cook Strait ferry

I loved everything about my first Cook Strait ferry crossing: a day parked in the car in howling Wellington wind and driving Wellington rain, waiting to hear if they were going to sail or not; watching the huge black ministerial limousines come and go; listening to the adventures of Chicken Man on 2ZB; waiting for updates. Even on a bad day you couldn't…